A Solwezi-based entrepreneur has taken up a rare business of rearing ducks to supply Chinese nationals in Zambia who fancy the local delicacy. Edgar Mutanuka, 32, said last June he supplied a number of ducks to Chinese nationals operating at a local firm, with each bird going for K150 and he had made good profit....

Standard Chartered Bank Zambia has allowed personal and priority customers to borrow up to K450,000, making it the highest personal loan threshold under that category in the country, company data shows. In a statement availed by StanChart head of corporate affairs Christine Matambo, Monday, StanChart raised its personal loan limit up to K450,000. “It is...

We have noticed that those in government are finding it very easy to fool people into believing that mining companies are, without any reason, resisting to accept the mining tax increase brought about in the 2019 budget. With that argument, it can be understood why Copperbelt residents are showing their anger to their employers, vowing...

Lusaka Mayor Miles Sampa has directed Hybrid Poultry Farming to remove its chicken statue from the Chainama roundabout within the next two weeks, saying it was not conforming to the council standards. In a letter addressed to Hybrid Poultry Farming Country Director Huw Morris, Monday, Sampa ordered the company to remove its chicken statute from...

Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) has announced that the association will not renew National team coach Sven Vandenbroek’s contract which ends next month. In a statement, FAZ further appointed Green Eagles coach Aggrey Chiyengi as the 1st Assistant Coach and ZANACO coach Numba Mumamba as second assistant coach to the national team. The association arrived...

On 6 February 2019, Minister of Higher Education Professor Nkandu Luo announced that her ministry had with immediate effect stopped disbursing the stipend, popularly known as ‘meal’ allowance, paid to government-sponsored students in public universities for their upkeep. Luo said the move was necessitated by the need to extend the government’s financial assistance to students...

Professional Boxing and Wrestling Control Board (ZPBWCB) chairperson Nelson Sapi has died. Sapi passed away today but the cause of his death had not yet been established. He was an amateur boxer in the 1960s before he switched carrer to football and coached Mutondo Football Stars, a Centralized Services Mine Division sponsored team in Kitwe...

French based Zambian defender Stophila Sunzu once again flaunted some class earlier in the week after he posted a picture of his latest car, the Range Rover Evoque 2018. Sunzu who recently was at the helm of controversy when he was arrested for violence against his wife, is at it again. He has apparently embarked...

UPND Secretary General Stephen Katuka says it is gross indiscipline for State House Spokesperson Amos Chanda to liken the brain of Hakainde Hichilema and his members to those of rats, just because he has been privileged to save in his current position. And Katuka has charged that it is Chanda or his boss who have...

The Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ) has opposed government’s intention to introduce a law that will regulate church leaders saying having such a law will give government authority over the Church. Last Tuesday, when Parliament resuming sitting, National Guidance and Religious Affairs Minister Godfridah Sumaili informed the House that government was considering putting up...